Officials are probing how a 51-year-old highway bridge came to collapse in the Italian port city of Genoa yesterday, killing at least 26 people and injuring 16 others as it sent dozens of vehicles tumbling into a heap of concrete and twisted steel.

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Earlier in August, the governor of Kerobokan jail, where Chan and Sukumaran are incarcerated, revealed he had recommended all Bali Nine members have their sentences amended.

He said Chan and Sukumaran should serve life in prison, rather than receive the death penalty, and the others serving life should have lesser sentences.

The governor's advice will be handed to ministers who advise the president, but it's not known if Dr Yudhoyono will make a decision before he leaves office or whether it will fall to his successor, Joko Widodo.

The president is also being asked to intervene to postpone the execution of Siti Zainab Binti Duhri Rupa, an Indonesian migrant worker on death row in Saudi Arabia.

An Amnesty International campaign for the woman, who is accused of killing her employer, has significant support within Indonesia.